VY2 is a vocaloid by Yamaha, created with his counterpart/companion/fellow inanimate object VY1 to represent Yamaha products. He has a smooth masculine voice which is intended to sound like it comes from a "handsome young male." He and VY1 are also intended for professional use.

He comes with his normal voicebank and a falsetto voicebank along with features like cross-synthesis.

Like VY1, his voice provider is unknown.

He was initially released on April 25, 2011.

Official original box art

The sword depicted here is based on the themes of "magma within" and "hot fighting spirit." Even without the sword being drawn, there is energy in the scabbard. Very deep.

Official V3 box art

Hopefully VY2V4 coming soon 🤞🏻

Design/Appearance

He doesn't have one! The people behind VY1 and VY2 decided to let producers get creative with their designs for these vocaloids. Many people have made their own designs for him:

Art by Suzunosuke for the song The Butterfly, Flower, and Spider (he's the guy in front if you can't tell)

Thoughts on Voice

I'm not good with fancy words, but I think VY2 is one of the best vocaloids out there. There aren't many male vocaloids compared to females so he's fairly unique and can be easily distinguished from the others. His tone is super nice too~

Having never used his software I can't say much about how easy he is to use but I'm sure he has a ton of potential. We need more VY2 songs gahhhh

He is also available on the Vocaloid editor app for ios! Unfortunately this is only available in the Japanese iTunes Store but if you switch in settings you'll be able to download his voicebank and the app for a lot cheaper than it would be to buy the full version. Of course, it will have more limitations, but it's still a pretty cool tool.